ILEC organized an ILLBM Workshop in collaboration with West Africa Sub-Regional Office, UN Environment in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire from 16th to 17th January, 2019. At the workshop, twenty participants from universities, institutions, NGOs, African Development Bank and UNDP, shared the challenges and efforts for lake basin management, including characteristic coastal brackish lakes in West Africa. And we discussed the possibility of improving them using ILLBM. Finally, participants concluded that they would report the results of the plenary to respective national authorities and share them.